«If I love people who come to the other part of the world, however, I forget about the disabled person, I don't even talk about the person in difficulty or to my neighbor, I'm a hypocrite".
Clear words from the Minister of Family and Disability, Lorenzo Fontana, which can also be listened to by viewing videos online which explain very well how there is no scandal in what has been said, but the scandal is all in the ideological approach to his speech.
If migration policy doesn't concern us, the health of women and children yes and to pass off a moderate intervention as extremist, it is indigestible.
The particularly striking point is when the minister is accused of applying the motto "Italians first" to the detriment of refugee women and children, but imagine if a Minister for the Family can only think of not protecting them. So let's explain carefully that when Lorenzo Fontana says "above all we help those in need", you can easily grasp it from the video, refers to everyone, but he actually mentioned refugee women and children in the passage.
Therefore we are faced with exploitation that smacks of strategy? And what is the strategy? Suffocate, hide under the mud of controversy, a minister who is annoying just because of the position he holds. Besides, an operational minister, which wants to mark a pro-family turning point: his battles for maternity leave with more flexible rules, five days paternity leave, the increase in the bonus for nursery schools, the establishment of a support fund for family crises with an amount of 10 millions of euros per year and the doubling of tax deductions for children with disabilities...
Perhaps, what makes him "guilty" by definition is precisely the fact that his objective is to make people understand how the birth rate is today one of the most important and urgent problems and issues in this country. A complete and effective demographic recovery policy certainly scares some, otherwise there is no explanation for such baseless fury. And being pro-family creates enemies unleashed on a media level. At this point if I were the minister I would laugh at it: It is precisely this determination that guarantees good work.
Toni Brandi
source – https://www.notizieprovita.it/economia-e-vita/con-il-ministro-fontana-attaccato-dai-professionisti-dellindignazione-ideologica/